“So this was an out of the blue decision for a CFP this year, and before you ask yes I have used Apple Mac OSX but I do not own a Mac at present. However, as the story goes, good friends of mine the lovely guys at Secret Labs help to put on Dev World in Melbourne each year and had told me about the conference. The funny thing was I thought well I actually…
“So shortly after a visit to the USA for OSCON and back to Australia, I jumped back on a plane and headed towards Seattle for LinuxCon America to give a talk about Open Source and Australian Government Policy. The trip was great and I also managed to fit in a flight to LA to visit a friend who works who NASA and lives in the Hollywood Mountains. The conference was my second American LinuxCon attending…
I recently did an interview for OpenSource.com regarding the work I am doing in Australian Government and the talk I will be giving in Seattle and LinuxCon. http://opensource.com/life/15/8/interview-aimee-maree-forsstrom-linuxcon
After spending the past year working with the team at New South Wales State Library, I thought it would be fun to spend a hack day with the team and play with the data. Erle and myself decided to create a tool for hackers rather then an application ourselves. There was so many different sets of data so we thought what if we could take the data into a tool like Neo4J and start trying…
So I flew down to Brisbane to attend WordCamp, the main WordPress Conference in Australia. It is run over the weekend for two days with two streams and an evening of drinks and food on Saturday. The breakdown of genders at the conference was amazing there was a near 50/50 split for attendees and speakers. There was also a great focus on catering for accessibility with Australian Sign Language translator present. The mixture of talks…
There really is only two small commands that you need to run to get VMware player working on Fedora; You will need to install gcc in order to get VMWare tools working; 32bit 64bit VMware-Player-6.0.1-1379776.i386.bundle needs to be replaced with the name of the version that you are trying to install.